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Monday, April 30, 2012

I am soooo excited to introduce to you today our Guest, Zoe McGrath, all the way from Australia. Many of you I am sure know Zoe from her online store Make It Crafty and many of Zoe's images have been used by the Copic Marker Europe DT on this blog so I know they are very popular. Zoe also has a huge passion for Copic Markers and colouring and her work can be seen on her own blog HERE.
***Ich bin so stolz, Euch unsere heutige Gastdesignerin aus dem fernen Australien vorzustellen: Zoe McGrath. Ich bin sicher, viele von Euch kennen Zoe von ihrem Onlineshop Make It Crafty und viele von Zoe's Motiven wurden von unserem Designteam hier auf dem Copic Marker Europe Blog verwendet, sie sind also sehr bekannt. Auch Zoe liebt Copic Marker und das Colorieren und auf ihrem Blog HIER könnt Ihr ihre Arbeit bewundern.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

I'm wishing all of you a happy saturday.
Today
it's my, DeeDee's, turn to give you some inspiration with my Copics
markers. This time I made a card with one of the beautiful images by
Make It Crafty. These are so great for coloring with Copics and I also
think they are such adorable images!
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The image is called Anastasia.
I colored her following the colors of my designer's papers. I always do
that - I have an idea of which papers I want to use and that match the
image and then I use these as a guideline to color the image with my
Copics. Here I used the designer's paper by Pion Design.
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I saw a lot of clean and simple cards created with Art Impression stamps and watercolour markers. I want to do the same with my rich colour palette from my Copics. But there was one thing I had to keep in mind. I know that my Copic Ink is an alcohol ink, therefore is it dry immediately after applying it on my stamp. We have a solution for that issue and that is our Activator. You can use it on different ways, I will explain that in this tutorial.

Monday, April 23, 2012

I've been playing with Digi images again to make my card for you today. I love to make larger cards and so having the freedom to make my image whatever size I need is fabulous. I also love colouring larger images with my Copic Markers. The image I used this time is called Belle and is from Saturated Canary.

The card I show you today is made with another sweet image from the newest collection at Whiff of Joy 'We Are Family' called 'You Can Count on Me'. The papers I used for the background are from Simple Stories 'Generations'.

Normally my cards have quite some embellishments on them, like flowers, lace, and much more. But always when I use those papers from Simple Stories I think any embellies would be too much. It would cover too many of the lovely details on the papers. So I left them away, just added two banners with a saying, which are from the same papers as well. This way it keeps the focus on the image which I quite like as well. My card is perfect for a children birthday.

Friday, April 20, 2012

It's my turn to do a tutorial for you and I thought I'd show you how easy it is to create a sea using your copic marker pens and prisma pencils. If you don't own all the Copic Markers you can use some Prisma Pencils to help. I usually use these for shading, but if you need a few colours and don't have them all, then this is a good way to achieve the desired results.Ich bin wieder mit einem Tutorial für euch an der Reihe und ich dachte mir, ich zeige euch wie einfach es ist, mit euren Copic Markern und Prisma Buntstiften ein Meer entstehen zu lassen. Wenn ihr nicht alle Copics besitzt, könnt ihr einige Prismas zu Hilfe nehmen. Ich benutze sie meist für die Schattierung. aber wenn ihr viele Stifte braucht und nicht alle habt, ist es eine gute Methode um die gewünschten Resultate zu erzielen.

First I have added some B37. I picked up this marker instead of B39 but it really doesn't matter as we are not looking to blend here, we want to see different colours of blue as the ocean is made up of different colours.Zuerst habe ich etwas B37 aufgetragen. Ich habe diesen Marker anstelle des B39 ausgwewählt, aber das ist wirklich egal, da wir hier keine weichen Farbverläufe herstellen wollen, wir möchten unterschiedliche Blautöen verwenden, da der Ozean sich aus unterschiedlichen Blautönen zusammensetzt.

I have then gone in and randomly added some B37Ich habe ganz wahllos B37 aufgetragen.

Next we are going to add some Copic Opaque White. I love this bit, this is where it will start to take shape, honest. I have used a small paint brush "O".Als Nächstes fügen wir Copic Opaque White hinzu. Ich liebe diesen Teil, jetzt nimmt es wirklich Form an. Ich habe einen kleinen Pinsel der Stärke 0 verwendet.